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Any pretense of professionalism by BBC was carelessly discarded in favor of the institution financing and supervising its work; i.e. the British government which rarely sacrifices the credibility of its institutions.
Such a decades old credibility gained by the British Broadcasting Corporation through competence and impressive subjectivity.
Despite its several previous errors, it has never reached this low and scan

While the exits available for "Abu mohamed al-Golani" to leave Syria are few, the end of al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria appears to be imminent. Will terrorists in Idlib await their fate or have they already started the reverse migration t

Bishop John McCarthy of Austin will be laid to rest Friday. A larger-than-life, gregarious Irishman, McCarthy led the Catholic Diocese of Austin from 1986 until 2001, and was a priest for more than 60 years.
He was powerfully committed to civil righ

In rural Randolph County, Georgia, the local board of elections (all two members -- a third recently stepped down, according to the Washington Post) has proposed closing seven of the countys nine polling places ahead of the midterm elections. Critics

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday designed to keep migrant families together at the U.S.-Mexico border.
We need a new approach to immigration
After weeks of claims that there was no such policy of family separation, and t

When Saudi Arabia announced in September that it would, at last, lift the ban on women driving on June 24, 2018, I thought I would be celebrating a milestone that took brave Saudi women’s rights activists nearly three decades to achieve. Instea

It’s not every day we start our discussion of current events with the president’s sex life.
Well, actually, it’s gotten to be pretty frequent. But today we’re going to talk less about what Donald Trump does in bed and more

There has always been a relatively innocent and eminently plausible interpretation for why Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had so many suspicious ties to Russia. Let’s review:
First, the candidate himself took an indulgent view of

Claudia Kolker is the associate director of intellectual capital at Rice Business School and author of “The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn From Newcomers To America About Health, Happiness, and Hope.”
The photo instantly ta

“This is not normal,” James B. Comey said this week after President Trump threatened him with jail.
If I had a nickel for every time somebody said that, I could repay the national debt. There is so much abnormality from this president

At the first meeting of a class I teach about the causes and consequences of World War I, each student is assigned a seat at a table with the flag of one of the combatant countries in the center. I explain that, during the semester, they will be aske

Starbucks’s decision to shut down its stores on May 29 for a day of “racial-bias education” training may not be enough to contain the backlash building against it. The boycotts have begun, and the angry social media threads continue

As his daughter lay in a funeral home, Greg Medek said his goodbyes.
He told her of the dreams and hopes he had for her future and how all of them were ripped away when a gunman walked into a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., in 201

As First Lady Melania Trump embarked on her campaign to tackle cyberbullying, luminaries from across the nation cheered her on with the same level of respect her husband has shown them.
“Little Marco” Rubio, “Crooked Hillary&rdqu

Shortly after the Charlottesville riots last August, I made the private decision to step down as President Trump’s personal representative and ambassador to the government of Panama. The president’s failure to condemn the white supremacis

At the White House press briefing room lectern, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders essentially walked back President Trump’s promise of unconditional talks with Kim Jong Un by the end of May. She insisted that before such talks can occur &m

I am a full-time law enforcement instructor teaching basic students as well as experienced officers in advanced training programs. Before this position, I was a sworn law enforcement officer. I have been in the law enforcement field for 10 years. In

Three great constants in life are death, taxes — and the costly rocket program that NASA always seems to have under development.
NASAs current rocket of the future is called the Space Launch System. It is a heavy-lift vehicle that replaced a

There are two options: Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia worked together to help elect our current president of the United States, or we are witnessing the greatest coincidence since the Big Bang.
Call it collusion. Call it a collaboration

The Post’s scoop about President Trump’s plans for a grand military parade in Washington brings to mind Evelyn Waugh’s classic satire about England’s upper crust in the early days of World War II, “Put Out More Flags,&rd

We’re guessing that President Trump won’t be gloating about the stock market in upcoming speeches the way he did during last weeks State of the Union Address.
After losing 666 points on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged

President Trump is inviting Evelyn Rodridguez, the mother of a 16-year-old girl murdered by MS-13, to his State of the Union address, just days after ICE targeted three New Jersey fathers dropping their kids off at school for deportation.
He

As we head into tonights State of the Union address, I figured I would call the New Jersey politician who was the first major Republican to back Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
No, not Chris Christie. The then-governor got on the Trump bandwago

Premier Mark McGowan had better make the most of his winter break because the number of vexing issues awaiting his return are mounting and they are steadily becoming challenges of his Government’s own making.
It’s hardly a revelation

Its time to embrace the Perth winter despite the British heatwave, say our Two Pommie Sheilas.
Whenever I call my family back home at this time of year, the chirpy tones at the other end of the line are a sign all is not right.
Gone is the doom

The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan has not only continued unabated for over 15 years, making it America’s longest war, but has no end in sight.
Since their 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government, America and its allies have more than struggle

We call it Kultursmog, it being that collection of attitudes, ideas, tastes and personages that are polluted by the politics of the left and that predominate on both coasts. And who are we? We are the freethinkers who are immune to the Kultursmog by

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American armed forces consistently perform so well that their effectiveness is taken for granted. Complaints about military spending cuts during the Obama years are such a cliche that they have been yawned at by our political lea

An extraordinary scenario is taking place right out in the open, and we all seem to be missing it. The subject is the utterly incompetent protection our “intelligence community” (as they like to be called) is providing for the nation&rsqu

The U.S. missile strike on Syrian territory spells the end of a long and strange period of speculation, of hopes for a new era of U.S.-Russian relations, of prospects for a “major deal” between the two countries and, in general, of any po

What’s a grand bargain? Since Donald Trump’s election last November, there has been much speculation about a U.S.-Russia grand bargain, although it has faded dramatically in recent weeks amid far-reaching U.S. investigations of Russian in

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President Trump got elected by railing against what liberal elites won’t admit. The institutions that provided the foundation for post-World War II U.S international security and economic policy — NATO, alliances with

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President Trump, in his first at-bat as commander in chief, is developing and unfolding his war plans at the same time. The small steps he’s taking are appropriate for a president learning the role of military commander. Bu

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In 2015 the Intelligence Community declassified The 1983 Soviet “War Scare” — the definitive report by the president’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board on how and why the USSR nearly launched a preempti

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It’s been a long while since I perused Time magazine, either online or in print.
Years ago, the weekly ceased being an interesting news magazine and evolved into a caricature of fashionable left-wing thought. It is no lo

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In the face of intense criticism of his initial executive orders restricting travel and immigration to the United States President Trump didn’t back down and didn’t double down. He and his administration calmly and me

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There is a lot of talk and understandable handwringing about declining state revenues for higher education. The difficulty of finding funds for expansion, let alone maintenance, is often painful for college and university executi

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“It’s better to do a few things well than to do many things poorly.” Such sayings become commonplace for a reason: They ring true.
Bakers can make great doughnuts, but that doesn’t mean they’ll ex

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James Comey, the director of the FBI, continues to act like a jerk for every season. The man who first tried to save Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and then tried to wreck it at the eleventh hour, reprised his familiar tap dan

The $54 billion bonus heading for the Pentagon is a beautiful thing, and so far I haven’t heard a dog bark against it, even though we don’t appear to have $54 billion worth of new enemies and we’ve now come to admire former enemy Vl

Before I left to begin reporting for The New York Times in Turkey — a nation strained by war, terrorist insurgencies, a refugee crisis and a widening crackdown on dissent — Turkish diplomats in Washington sent me on my way with a ve

Benjamin Franklin has been trying for years to give the Republicans needed advice from the grave, and they never listen. “We must indeed all hang together,” Franklin told his fellow conspirators in Philadelphia, “or most assuredly w

Prior to winning the White House, President Donald Trump pledged if he were to occupy the Oval Office, one of his first tasks would be to look into every violation of a trade agreement a foreign country is using to harm American workers and then dire

I was in Egypt when President Donald Trump signed the controversial executive order banning travel to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries.
The prevailing feeling on the ground at the time: relief. Egypt wasnt on the list. But some people

Washington is praying up a storm this weekend.
From the west front of the U.S. Capitol to the nave in the Washington National Cathedral, throngs of people, led by America’s conservative and religious elites, have assembled to lif

Trump delivered the speech forcefully. He displayed less preening narcissism than we have come to expect (though there was no nod to humility, either). It was populist rather than conservative. We heard no rote denunciations of big government.

Many Americans are more thoughtful when choosing appliances than when choosing presidents, but the baseball writers whose ballots decide who is “enshrined” — more about that verb anon — in Cooperstown’s Hall of Fam

The humble, warm and engaging Trump we’d hoped to meet on Inauguration Day failed to make an appearance. We’ve heard he exists, but shtick is shtick, and Trump is Trump. He was, is and apparently intends to run the nation as a popul

The Portland, Ore., City Council just struck a direct blow at inequality, passing a path-breaking law that will slap a surtax on large corporations that pay their chief executives more than 100 times what they pay their typical worker.

Norman Eisen, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, co-founded and chairs Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Peter Schweizer is president of Government Accountability Institute.
As founders of two leading g

The idealists of the 1960s have come a long way from Woodstock. After a quarter- century of mismanaging the country, they have produced Donald Trump, who with his narcissistic and uncompromising style is a bright orange symbol of what went wrong with

When the United States fights its wars in the Middle East, it has a nasty habit of recruiting local forces as proxies and then jettisoning them when the going gets tough or regional politics intervene.
This pattern of “seduction and abandonm

The system is rigged and the polls are phony.
As E-Day draws nigh, Donald Trump and his spokesvolken have contrived every possible excuse for the Republican nominee’s likely defeat. Unless, of course, lying has caught on “big league&rd

Buster Keaton’s 1922 short film “Cops” begins with a mistake. “The Great Stone Face,” as the actor was known, is driving a wagon when he wanders into the route of a Los Angeles Police Department parade. If that isn&rsquo

The cost of drugs is the driving force behind the accelerating price of health coverage and threatens the future of Obamacare. The latest example is the 500% increase increase in cost of the EpiPen allergy drug while CEO Heather

My sisters killer is serving a life sentence. Dylann Roof and the Charleston church victims deserve the same
The day after the massacre of nine parishioners at the Emmanuel A.M.E. Baptist Church in Charleston, S.C., a judge sen

I’ve lived in Arizona for over 30 years, and for over 30 years well-meaning newspaper writers, well-educated political scientists and well-connected civil rights activists have predicted that Latinos are about to become the dom

Bill Clinton vowing to ban foreign and corporate donations to the Clinton Foundation should Hillary be elected is like calling the fire department after your house has burned down. Perception in politics counts — a lot. If

“WE don’t want you here,” warned the county commissioner, pointing an accusatory finger at the drilling company executives as 600 local residents rose to their feet. “We want you to leave Hays County.”
Normally, m

We’ve been warned over and over that the Federal Reserve, in its effort to improve the economy, is “debasing” the dollar. The archaic word itself tells you a lot about where the people issuing such warnings are coming from. It

The political world is stuck in the middle of an accelerating protocol crisis. All sorts of customary acts of self-restraint are being washed away. It used to be that senators didn’t go out campaigning against one another. It used to be t

The Republicans in the Senate seem to have had no trouble inserting themselves into the Iran nuclear negotiations, when they had no business interfering. Yet they have shown little interest in carrying out a job that is squarely withi

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The voice on the other end of the radio said: “There are two people digging by the side of the road. Can we shoot them?”
It was the middle of the night during my first week in Afghanistan in 2010, on the northern edge of Americ

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — LAST week, Sprout Pharmaceuticalsresubmitted its drug flibanserin to the Food and Drug Administration for approval. Flibanserin, in case you haven’t heard, is a drug intended to treat low sexual desire

North Korea could be on track to have an arsenal of 100 nuclear weapons by 2020, according to a new research report. The prediction, from experts on North Korea, goes well beyond past estimates and should force renewed attention on a threat that has

Political moderates are so near extinction in the hard-edged House Republican caucus that Representative Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania is practically a miracle of ornithology — that rare bird called a G.O.P. centrist whose forthright call

“You could almost say that introversion has become the new cool,” said Brian R. Little, a professor of psychology at Cambridge University. In large part as a result of Susan Cain’s popular 2012 book “Quiet,” he exp